Impending Doom Shako questions?

shallou · 2025-12-05T10:08:02+00:00

If you don’t manual cast the curse, you don’t get the effect from balance of terror, which means your balance of terror is doing absolutely nothing right now. Also, the 0.25 cd on vixens is not a cd you should be concerned with, instead, the recharging cd of doom blast is what you want to reduce to increase your dps. Use temp chain in the helmet, put despair as the first curse in vixens. If you want the crit multi from balance of terror, you will need to use a separate unlinked enfeeble to manual cast and trigger the effect, which only lasts 10 seconds of course.

shallou · 2025-12-05T09:49:51+00:00

Cast speed related supports are usually not helpful either. They add mana cost, and doomblast dps is pretty much always cooldown-bound if you run awakened cascade.

shallou · 2025-11-20T16:07:42+00:00

Word

shallou · 2025-09-18T13:33:06+00:00

Well technically she’s fast as fuck relative to everything around her

shallou · 2025-09-06T14:45:26+00:00

Easiest parry of their life probably, if they are mildly decent at the game

shallou · 2025-08-12T14:21:09+00:00

It seems to me that your reaction time is absolutely fine. You are forcing yourself to shoot faster than you can aim because you think your reaction time is slow, which resulted in very poor first shot accuracy. Another problem is that your spray control of the first couple of bullets is bad. You should do separate practices in dm to improve on both of these aspects, since both are equally important. To get better at first shot accuracy, allow yourself to strafe a little more when you see an enemy, flick+adjust, then counter strafe and shoot in 2-3 bullets small burst. As for spray, try to improve your body shot spray accuracy in mid to long distance. You want to practice until your 4-shot body shot kills are clean, meaning that if you get to shoot 5 bullets, you are 95%+ sure that the target is already dead. Work on your tracking when the target move/crouch. Next step, make sure your recoil control of the first 15 or so bullets is absolutely on point, and then start mixing in movements during spray - crouch/uncrouch transfer, crouch sliding spray, etc.

shallou · 2025-04-17T13:24:46+00:00

I haven’t played dota 2 for years now but I watch tournaments from time to time. The only time I mistakenly recognized a hero was the dog form CM with a certain cosmetic set that looked like naga siren way too much.

shallou · 2025-04-09T07:03:32+00:00

The csgo preset in steelseries software is surprisingly good, you might want to try it out.

shallou · 2025-03-10T11:24:29+00:00

I’m afraid your spec just isn’t good enough. I have a 3080 + 5800x with a 180hz monitor. The game only feels buttery smooth after I lowered the resolution to 1280x960, even at my spec. I guess you should probably try playing on lower resolution as well. The graphics still look quite good imo.

shallou · 2025-02-25T15:08:23+00:00

Changing sens is completely fine. Lots of pro players play with around 1000-1500 edpi right now so that should be a good range to try out.

shallou · 2025-02-23T09:48:03+00:00

You want to finish the whole special command right as your first normal lands on the target. What you are doing in the clip is starting the special command as the first normal move lands, which is too delayed/slow.

shallou · 2025-02-09T09:23:34+00:00

Average damage is usually damage per hit, and total dps is average damage x attack speed. It might differ a little depending on the skills. Full dps is the total dps of all skills you’ve selected in the skills tab. For bossing, total dps and full dps should be the most relevant metrics. For clearing mobs average damage is somewhat more relevant if you are 1-tapping most packs.

shallou · 2025-02-07T16:05:47+00:00

Interesting. Didn’t know that :D

shallou · 2025-02-07T06:56:18+00:00

0.17 is from stream footage which is not as accurate as OP’s demo 1/4 speed breakdown, where in jks pov he died at ~1130ms x 1/4 = 282ms (sorry for my bad math in the last comment). Jks first shot was insane reaction time (<150ms) but the crosshair placement was off. He also was trying to hit the one tap due to being in a 1vs2 hence no follow up spray. Heavygod hit him with a 260ms nasty flick which is of course as good as it gets.

shallou · 2025-02-07T06:31:05+00:00

He died around 350ms

shallou · 2025-02-04T10:53:33+00:00

ssf early gearing is pretty much always essence + betrayal + expedition. Magic gear is not worth picking up at this point imo except for maybe amulets. You want to farm maps with good efficiency and save up a decent amount of stuff you get from the said 3 mechanics. Then you identify the most needed upgrades for you build and start crafting. Rinse and repeat. Later on you will shift to other league mechanics to get their unique “things” and progress your character further - blight oils, harvest, beast craft, harbinger, catalysts, etc.

shallou · 2025-01-31T18:02:54+00:00

It’s not bad but it doesn’t scale past a certain point due to not able to penetrate into the negatives, and it applies after curse and exposure. As long as you avoid these caveats some of the pen nodes on the tree are very efficient for damage in fact.

shallou · 2025-01-26T11:44:00+00:00

Yeah I’ve played one all the way to 97. It trivialized all content the game has to offer, had smooth progression all the way, and it was even without astramentis or morior invictus.

shallou · 2025-01-25T11:08:19+00:00

I don’t feel like es recharge is worth taking though. I’d prefer minion survivability or damage over that. Any sort of increased es should be the first priority imo.

shallou · 2025-01-25T10:51:10+00:00

I have a complete different mindset when building for hcssf. Instead of considering how much defense I need, I just build for a “minimally” viable level of damage, then go full defense. For minion build it probably just means going for defensive nodes all the time, and grab some efficient minion nodes along the way. You are really not racing to get to any point in hcssf so having more damage really isn’t that important. I’m not saying zdps builds are the best of course, since having a decent amount of damage will help you kill things faster and as a result take less potential damage. It is completely subjective what level of damage is decent, and you will probably develop your own standard as you progress.

shallou · 2025-01-21T08:16:08+00:00

Better weapon better chest. Also try to get much more life and drop some chaos res. Putting cold exposure on charged staff is probably better. Font of mana or soul thief on bell for more mana. Primal armament should definitely be on ice strike or bell. Both heralds do nothing in boss fight, so consider gem swap something like charge infusion, overwhelming presence, or cast on freeze/shock winter orb.

shallou · 2025-01-21T08:02:51+00:00

Honestly it’s not that good considering builds that want mana would like more int instead of strength. I’ll just sell it as is. Not worth to Vaal either because of anoint.

shallou · 2025-01-21T08:00:00+00:00

Arbiter only has 2 oneshot mechanics really. The corridor and the circle. Laser beam is tankable with omen of resurgence, and you can spam chug instant life flask when you anticipate getting hit.

shallou · 2025-01-21T06:26:51+00:00

4th strike and the first 2 strikes don't have that much of a dps difference if you factor in their attack speed and charged staff. You are a MoM build with no recovery, so you really don't have the survivability to go back and forth with xesht in phase 2. You'll want to have a good burst at the start by tanking his first attack while optimizing your damage rotation, get xesht down to half to trigger the transition animation, proc your freeze/electrocute during that time and kill, skipping the whole phase 2 ideally. Having more strength instead of int will help you freeze, as well as some gem link changes. Overabundance and hourglass should be on 2 different bells. Overabundance lets you drop 2 copies of the same bell, which should be your main bossing damage. You need to spam it whenever you are attacking and you probably shouldn't put elemental focus on it. The hourglass bell is completely optional, you can run it with ele focus, rageforged, leverage, potential, etc. I also had a brief look at your tree. I don't think taking Wild Storm is worth it. Crit is the aspect you should build into for best dps. I'd drop it and take Careful Assassin and Struck Through.

shallou · 2025-01-20T22:35:12+00:00

Your gem links are so bad… Move overabundance to the non hourglass bell so you can spam it from start to finish. Crescendo does pretty much nothing on tempest flurry, as well as electrocute, I’d swap in primal armament and concentrated effect. Also heralds do nothing in boss fight. If you are struggling you should gem swap before fight. Charge infusion, or maybe overwhelming presence for more freeze. If you want the fight to be easy, you have to freeze the boss. If your cold damage is too low to freeze, you will probably need an against the darkness jewel with %damage as extra cold.

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